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My Undesirable Friends: Part II -- Exile: “I'm always interested in the after... How do you get up the next morning? How do you keep going? And how do you keep telling the truth?”
In this vHopeful Conversation, I welcome back award-winning filmmaker Julia Loktev, my first returning guest, to talk about My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile. She describes shooting alone on an iPhone while editing Part I with Michael...
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Room of the Absolute: “Natalie and Elizabeth trusted me to show my reality through my own eyes, and I trusted them to find meaning in what I filmed.” Alla Hurenko
In this vHopeful Conversation, I talk with co-directors Natalie Shirinian and Elizabeth Baudouin about how a friendship that began on Instagram turns into Room of the Absolute. The film came out of a painting Pazza Pennello (Alla Hurenko) s...
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A producer on over 70 films, studio exec on over 60, Ted launched Amazon’s foray into feature film production. His memoir/handbook "HopeForFilm" is available for your reading pleasure.
Director. Producer. Documentary & Fiction Films. INVISIBLE NATION (PBS). Co-Writer, Co-Host LOVE IS A CRIME (Vanity Fair). Writer, Host vHOPEFUL CONVERSATIONS podcast w inspiring filmmakers & authors, listen (Apple. Spotify), watch here, HopeForFilm
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Beantown economic sociologist turned screenwriter and producer building alternative business models. Co-founder @ Intrinsic Entertainment Collaborative. https://seedandspark.com/fund/buyletterboxd
Skeptical, data-driven investigations into how the business actually works — and how to survive it.
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I am an educator and filmmaker from Lafayette, Louisiana. I write about micro-budget filmmaking and the independent film industry.
If you want to tell stories that matter, I want to help you tell them. I'm an imperfect human who writes imperfect words. A creative career coach with a creative community. A podcaster with ADHD. And a dad who loves dad jokes.
Author of the upcoming HOW TO BE LESS USEFUL: THE JOY OF INEFFICIENCY (Knopf Nov ‘26), BIRD MILK & MOSQUITO BONES: A MEMOIR (Knopf ‘24). Former talent agent and producer, current author/screenwriter/parent.
Working studio screenwriter (Netflix, Searchlight). Black List alum. Hollyweird covers what nobody tells you about a real screenwriting career — craft, business, and the gap between.
Siblings Brandon Kramer and Lance Kramer, the director/producer duo behind HOLDING LIAT, THE FIRST STEP, and CITY OF TREES. Co-founders of Meridian Hill Pictures. Proudly based in Washington, DC.
Producer, DGA Assistant Director, and Film Maker living in Los Angeles. Also author of "The Production Assistant's Guidebook." Using this space for Film Stack and to share some of my ideas about the future of American independent film.
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